Electronic Health Record (EHR) software have become the next benchmark standard for healthcare industry. Over the last 5 years or so, physicians have increasingly shifted towards a more advanced version of the healthcare records. Now, the EHRs not only help physicians look after their patients’ data, but also help them communicate with other entities in Read more…

The International Classification for Diseases (ICD) are now being evolved into a new system altogether. ICD-10, as it is known, is a set of over 140,000 codes physicians all across the country will use come October 1, 2014, replacing the 30-year-old system of ICD-9. The ICD-10 codes include more classification of diseases than its predecessor Read more…

Nationwide, practices are shifting to new and better Electronic Health Records (EHRs) from their previous EMRs. Some find their current EMR systems old, outdated and incompatible with their practice management and billing software. Therefore, it becomes absolutely important to make the switch to Electronic Health Records (EHRs). But change is not easy. It takes a Read more…

The ability of Electronic Health Record (EHR) software to meaningfully connect, send and receive information such as test results, medical histories, summaries of care, lab reports, prescriptions, provider notes etc. between various institutions involved in the healthcare IT model can be broadly described as Interoperability. These days, most U.S. physicians are using some sort of Read more…

September 23, 2013 marked the end of the relaxation or grace period for the tougher, stricter implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (HIPAA) Omnibus Rule. The Rule, which was enforced earlier in 2013 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), gave practices across the country the new guidelines to Read more…

The day I sold my green 1998 Buick Century to settle a college loan and instead bought a run-down beat old Geo Metro, which was a stick by the way, my heart shattered into a million tiny pieces and within each piece there were a million more tiny pieces. I was devastated beyond consolation. It Read more…

When medical practices switch to Electronic Health Records (EHRs), the transition is never easy and can be quite cumbersome for many. It can make the practices suffer in their day-to-day operations and they can easily lose their primary focus: patient care. Not only it can take months to implement the system, it requires extensive training Read more…

About twenty years back, there was no concept of electronic healthcare. Doctors back then were engrossed into using paper-based systems and spending countless hours on filling out hundreds of thousands of papers every year. Because of that, they did not have much time to actually focus on the patient or let’s just say, had less Read more…

When Jack Kevorkian got sent to prison for life in 1999 for having assisted with 130 medical suicides in his professional career as a doctor of medicine, not only did he get branded with the alias of Dr Death but it also opened a Pandora’s box of questions about rightful healthcare practices and how far Read more…

The clock is ticking and the implementation deadline for ICD-10 and Meaningful Use Stage 2 for medical practitioners across the country is not very far away. In fact, there’s just over 12 months remaining for practices to put these in place and the need of the hour for them is to expedite the process of Read more…